Francesco Paolo Michetti | Genre painter

Francesco Paolo Michetti (1851-1929) was an Italian painter known especially for his genre works.

He was born in Tocco da Casauria in the Province of Chieti. His father having died when he was a boy, Michetti was forced to work with a local artisan.

In 1868, Michetti was awarded a stipend by the province to study at the Accademia (now Istituto) in Naples under Domenico Morelli.

Valérie Hadida, 1965 | Figurative sculptor

Valérie Hadida is a contemporary French🎨 sculptor and painter, working mainly in Bronze and clay.

This set of sculptures is from Les "petites bonnes femmes"/ The Little Women series, which has been described by critics as a “poetic encounter….[meant] to make us travel the path of women from adolescence to maturity and through the various emotions and moods that drive these generations of women".

Trained at l’Ecole d’arts plastiques et publicité de la ville de Paris (EMSAT) and employed in the studio of Marielle Polska for 6 years, a character designer for several animated features and winner of the Paul Ricard Foundation Prize in 1991, she has been Exhibited in galleries since 1990.

Emil Nolde | The Die Brücke Group

German painter in oils and watercolour of landscapes, still life and figure compositions, lithographer, etcher and wood-engraver.

Born near Nolde, a village in North Schleswig. Changed his name from Hansen to Nolde in 1902. Worked as wood carver in several furniture factories, studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Karlsruhe 1888-9 and began to sketch landscapes and portraits in his spare time.

Taught drawing at the Museum of Industrial Arts in St Gall, Switzerland, 1892-7. First oil paintings 1896.

Decided to devote himself to painting and studied at Friedrich Fehr's private school in Munich 1898-9 and with Adolf Holzel in Dachau 1899; also spent part of 1899-1900 in Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian.

In the following years, lived mainly in Berlin and on the island of Alsen.

Claude Théberge (1934-2008) | Abstract painter

The career of Claude Théberge provides a prime example of how time works in magical and often unforeseen ways…

This Canadian painter🎨, a graduate of Quebec City’s École des Beaux-Arts, won bursaries from both the Canada Arts Council and the Quebec Government and attended the greatest art and design schools in France.

He captured the top prize in a United Nations competition involving 65.000 graphic artists from throughout the world.

Armand Guillaumin | Paysages | Page 3

Armand Guillaumin (February 16, 1841 - June 26, 1927), was a French impressionist painter, best remembered for his landscapes of Paris, the Creuse département, and the area around Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel near the Mediterranean coast in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region of France.

Francesco Lojacono | Scenery painter

Francesco Lojacono or Lo Jacono (1838-1915) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes and seascapes.

He was born in Palermo, Sicily, and received his early training there with his father Luigi, a history painter, and Salvatore Lo Forte.

Francesco Lojacono won a gold medal for a small canvas presented at an exhibition in Palermo, and this gained him a stipend to move in 1856 to Naples, where attended the school of Filippo Palizzi.

Guy de Maupassant: "I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt"

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance

Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer, one of the fathers of the modern short story.

• "I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt".

• "I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth".

• "You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government".